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100 1 _aShen, Kuo,
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245 1 0 _a夢溪筆談
246 1 _aMengxi Bi Tan
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2008
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Pool_Essays
500 _aRelease date is 2008-11-18
508 _aProduced by Jun-Bi Lai
520 _a"夢溪筆談" by Kuo Shen is an encyclopedic work published in 1088 during China's Song dynasty. Written during the author's forced retirement from government service, this wide-ranging collection explores topics from mathematics and astronomy to medicine and metallurgy. The work records groundbreaking observations about magnetic declination, compass navigation, and movable type printing. It also contains remarkable theories about fossils, climate change, and geological formations, alongside accounts of strange phenomena. Compiled on Shen's estate near modern Zhenjiang, these essays capture the extensive knowledge of one of China's great polymaths. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aChina -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279 -- Anecdotes
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27292
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